Oh yeah, right. Like Helen Thomas ever threw Klintoon a hardball question.
and not to mention Sam "da rug" Donaldson tossing spitters to Ronaldus Magnus.
Well .. I wouldn't call her stuff "hardball" .. but I would classify them as hard left - bordering on KOOKIE.
And .. I believe that because of her hostility to the WH - she has lost her front row seat ..?? Or she did for awhile.
She threw him *one* hardball question after the Davidian compound was burned to the ground; asking if every church had to be "state approved" to insure that the feds didn't raid it.
...then silence. No more hardball questions from her to President Clinton...nothing but softballs, in fact, until President Bush held his first press conference.